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The determinants of employment status in Egypt
Assaad, Ragu; El-Hamidi, Fatma; Ahmed, Akhter U. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Egyptian labor market is moving from a period of high overall unemployment to one where unemployment is increasingly concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more adversely affected than their male counterparts by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997145
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The determinants of employment status in Egypt
Assaad, Ragu; El-Hamidi, Fatma; Ahmed, Akhter U. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000
Egyptian labor market is moving from a period of high overall unemployment to one where unemployment is increasingly concentrated among specific groups whose access to the private-sector labor market is limited. Educated young women are more adversely affected than their male counterparts by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997309
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The mixed-complementary approach to specifying agricultural supply in computable general equilibrium models:
Lofgren, Hans; Robinson, Sherman - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
Egypt, we show how such a model can generate realistic results concerning water use and productivity that cannot be captured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863990
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How to build resilience to conflict: The role of food security
Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Maystadt, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
four case studies on Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It argues that food security-related policies and programs build …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114824
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Employment risk and job-seeker performance:
Godlonton, Susan - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between employment risk and job-seeker performance. To induce exogenous variation … for which they were applying. The findings show that job-seeker performance is highest and effort is lowest among those … assigned the lowest employment risk (a guaranteed alternative job), and performance is lowest and effort highest among those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755481
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Beyond the numbers: How urban households in Central America responded to the recent global crises
Hernandez, Manuel A.; Robles, Miguel; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
A review of various economic indicators shows that both the recent food crisis and the financial and economic crisis have had significant negative effects on the Central American countries. The first jolt to the region came in 2007 and mid-2008, while the second occurred at the end of 2008 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611940
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Innovations in rural and agriculture finance
Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate; Sharma, Manohar - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and production risks are high. The recent financial crisis has made the provision of credit even tighter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008460683
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Navigating the perfect storm: Reflections on the food, energy, and financial crises
Headey, Derek; Malaiyandi, Sangeetha; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009
"The closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export restrictions and panic purchases turned a tightened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967180
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Toward a typology of food security in developing countries:
Yu, Bingxin; You, Liangzhi; Fan, Shenggen - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty. This paper conducts a factor and sequential typology analysis to identify groups of countries categorized according to five measures of food security—consumption, production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008521822
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Más allá de los números: Cómo respondieron los hogares urbanos en Centroamérica a las crisis globales recientes
Hernandez, Manuel A.; Robles, Miguel; Torero, Maximo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
La revisión de varios indicadores económicos muestra que tanto la crisis de alimentos como la crisis económica y financiera recientes tuvieron efectos negativos considerables sobre los países centroamericanos. La primera golpeó a la región entre el 2007 y mediados del 2008, mientras que la...
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